There is something compelling about Maureen Dowd's advocacy of Caroline Kennedy in today's NYT:
"Ask not, you know, what your country can, like, do for you. Ask what you, um, can, you know, do for your country.
"After a lifetime of shying away from the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy asked herself what she could do for her country.
"Her soft-spoken answer — to follow her father and two uncles and serve in the Senate — got her ripped to shreds in the, you know, press.
"I know about 'you knows.' I use that verbal crutch myself, a bad habit that develops from shyness and reticence about public speaking."
"People complain that the 51-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School grad and author is not a glib, professional pol who knows how to artfully market herself, and is someone who hasn’t spent her life glad-handing, backstabbing and logrolling.
"I say, thank God."
"Ask not, you know, what your country can, like, do for you. Ask what you, um, can, you know, do for your country.
"After a lifetime of shying away from the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy asked herself what she could do for her country.
"Her soft-spoken answer — to follow her father and two uncles and serve in the Senate — got her ripped to shreds in the, you know, press.
"I know about 'you knows.' I use that verbal crutch myself, a bad habit that develops from shyness and reticence about public speaking."
"People complain that the 51-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School grad and author is not a glib, professional pol who knows how to artfully market herself, and is someone who hasn’t spent her life glad-handing, backstabbing and logrolling.
"I say, thank God."
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